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1 online resource (xiii, 175 pages) : illustrations

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Series

Black women writers series.

JSTOR DDA.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note

Print version record.

Contents

Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Scattered Pages: Magazines, Sex, and the Culture of Migration; Chapter 2: Refashioning Rape: Ringwood's Afro-American Journal of Fashion; Chapter 3: To Make a Lady Black and Bid Her Sing: Clothes, Class, and Color; Chapter 4: "Colored Faces Looking Out of Fashion Plates. Well!": Twentieth-Century Fashion, Migration, and Urbanization; Chapter 5: No Place Like Home: Domesticity, Domestic Work, and Consumerism; Chapter 6: Urban Confessions and Tan Fantasies: The Commodification of Marriage and Sexual Desire in African American Magazine Fiction.

Chapter 7: But Is It Black and Female?: Essence, O, and American Magazine PublishingNotes; Selected Bibliography; Index; About the Author.

Summary

Beginning in the late nineteenth century, mainstream magazines established ideal images of white female culture, while comparable African American periodicals were cast among the shadows. Noliwe M. Rooks & amp;rsquo;s Ladies & amp;rsquo; Pages sheds light on the most influential African American women & amp;rsquo;s magazines & amp;ndash; & amp;ndash;Ringwood & amp;rsquo;s Afro-American Journal of Fashion, Half-Century Magazine for the Colored Homemaker, Tan Confessions, Essence, and O, the Oprah Magazine & amp;ndash; & amp;ndash;and their little-known success in shaping the lives of black women. Ladies & amp;rsquo; Pages demonstrates how thes.

Language

English.

Local Note

JSTOR

Subject

African American periodicals -- History -- 20th century.

Women's periodicals, American -- History -- 20th century.

African American periodicals -- History -- 19th century.

Women's periodicals, American -- History -- 19th century.

Périodiques noirs américains -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.

Périodiques noirs américains -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.

Presse féminine américaine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.

Presse féminine américaine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle.

REFERENCE -- General.

African American periodicals

Women's periodicals, American

Kulturelle Identität

Frauenzeitschrift

Schwärze

USA

Chronological Term

1800-1999

Genre/Form

History

Other Form:

Print version: Rooks, Noliwe M., 1963- Ladies' pages. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004 0813534240 (DLC) 2003018868

ISBN

9780813542522 (electronic bk.)

0813542529 (electronic bk.)

1283592061

9781283592062

9786613904515

6613904511

0813534240 (alk. paper)

9780813534244 (alk. paper)

0813534259 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

9780813534251 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Standard No.

10.36019/9780813542522 doi

40010570639